Comedy ·Romance · United States of America · 1933 · 21m

Lost in Limehouse or Lady Esmerelda's Predicament

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Director
Otto Brower
Cast
Laura La Plante as Lady Esmerelda Walter Byron as Harold Heartright John Sheehan as Sir Marmaduke Rakes Olaf Hytten as Sheerluck Jones Charles McNaughton as Hotson William Burress as Hop Tup
Crew
Harrington Reynolds — Writer Walter Weems — Writer
Synopsis

A slapstick burlesque of 19th Century Victorian melodrama featuring a parody of Holmes and Watson who rescue a heroine held by a mustache-twirling villain in a den of caricatured Chinese gangsters.

Mood & Themes
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Key Collaborators
Otto Brower Director Harrington Reynolds Writer Walter Weems Writer
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